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@Autumn – I think we could substitute “Canada” in the link with any of several other countries and the story would read much the same. I also think that Covid has helped by giving many of those with only one foot in a church the time and space to think independently about their beliefs. The Church can only survive by the constant iterations of the…[Read more]

@Autumn – I think is problem is that people just won’t clean up the forests as they did in the U.S. with the “Make America Rake Again” campaign. It was the greatest campaign ever. It really worked although my fellow farmer friends in Mendocino County would disagree. They are just too liberal, I guess.

@Autumn – Yes, I agree (In general I find it difficult to disagree with anything you have written over the years and I do like to argue with people :-))

@Autumn…or that their surface level understanding of affairs qualifies as insight.

Good comment. Reminds me of an adage I sometimes use; “what is common sense to one person is special knowledge to another”

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Unseen wrote:
@autumn Making something happen, having a place in the causal chain, is distinct from being responsible for it.[/quote]

Can’t say I agree. Our sense of responsibility is determined within that system, is accountable to that system and what happens within it…

Words can have different meanings. I’m talking about “re…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@autumn Making something happen, having a place in the causal chain, is distinct from being responsible for it.[/quote]

Can’t say I agree. Our sense of responsibility is determined within that system, is accountable to that system and what happens within it…

We judge people because it’s in our nature to do so, just as it’s in the…

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@Autumn

Making something happen, having a place in the causal chain, is distinct from being responsible for it. We judge people because it’s in our nature to do so, just as it’s in the offender’s nature to do as they do, but we have no control over our actions in any relevant moral/ethical sense. Ditto for the defender.

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@autumn One of the biggest problems of “free will” in any context is WTH does “will” mean?

I think this is part of why the debate irks me. This is one of those cases the ordinary dictionary definitions of ‘will’ give us a meaningful concept worthy of having a word to describe it. It deals with a macro level, appreciable concept…[Read more]

@Autumn

One of the biggest problems of “free will” in any context is WTH does “will” mean?

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@autumn I don’t disagree with you in general. My point was the statistics we are given are probably poppycock because (a) they are procedural disasters inflated artificially by a combination of fuzzy and/or overly broad definitions. and a set of motivations almost designed to inflate the number of reports because those who’ve exp…

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@Autumn

I don’t disagree with you in general. My point was the statistics we are given are probably poppycock because (a) they are procedural disasters inflated artificially by a combination of fuzzy and/or overly broad definitions. and a set of motivations almost designed to inflate the number of reports because those who’ve experienced rape or…[Read more]

@Autumn

I’m not going to do the quotes thing. I think you and anyone else reading what you wrote will follow me well enough.

First, the world the average person lives in and people with gender/sex issues have to operate in doesn’t pay a lot of attention to semantics, other, perhaps, than to abuse them from time to time.

I take your second point…[Read more]